XXIV - En abriu

Summary

9 MSS: A (27^v-28^r) marcabruns, C (345^v) helyas font salada (C Reg. helias fonsalada with marc e bru written alongside in the first index), E (153–154) Marcabru, I (117^r), K (l02^v-103^r) Marcabruns, N (270^v-271^r), R (8^v) marc e bru, d (302^r-v) Marcabrus, z (2 coi A-col. B) Marcabruns

Stanzas in CH not found in other MSS are designated by x and y; the three lines that make up stanza III in AKNRz (not in CJ) come at the end of the poem in E and are copied as if each line were a separate stanza. The first half of the poem is missing in I as a result of a missing folio. C conflates stanzas VIII and IX.

Attribution

C’s attribution to Elias Fonsalada is scarcely credible in the light of the overwhelming evidence of the other MSS and the marginal attribution to Marcabru in CReg.

Analysis of the manuscripts

The manuscripts can be divided into three groups on the basis of the amount of material transmitted, textual details and stanza order: AIKNRz, C and E.

CE offer different stanza orders that also differ from that of A(I)KNRz and each contains material not found in the other MSS. C and E diverge from AIKNR on numerous points of textual detail (for example see lines 1, 2 and 3 in C, lines 1, 2 and 3 in E and so on) and in some cases such divergences are also isolated errors (for example line 1 in Band line 3 in Q. JEhas a fair number of isolated errors (see the rejected readings in XXIVb), has an unsatisfactory stanza order, and transmits the end of its version of the poem as if each line were a separate stanza, C has more isolated readings than E (see lines 1, 2, 5 and so on) and rnisattributes the poem.

Although the redactions of C and E are for the most part independent with each producing substantive isolated readings of the material shared with A(I)KNRz (for example line 11), at a few points they share a reading that is opposed to those of all the other MSS: see lines 3 (where the texts of CE are similar, but ordered differently), 12 (mai/tnais), 13, 14, 19. This may suggest that CE shared a common source at a stage of transmission prior to the reworkings that led to the present versions of these two redactions.